Sketches from the Poem Road (after Basho’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North)
Collaborative exhibition of drawings and poems by Isao Miura & Chris Beckett, exploring the legacy of Matsuo Basho’s masterpiece Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), its enduring power as a model of travel-writing, and the influence of haibun and haiku in British poetry today.
Isao Miura is a painter & sculptor from Akita who grew up near Kisagata Bay (one of the main landmarks in The Narrow Road) and is currently pursuing a fellowship in the Bronze Foundry in Chelsea College of Art.
Chris Beckett is a widely published poet who lived in Japan in the 1980’s and whose last collection of poems was Ethiopia Boy, published by Carcanet/Oxford poets in 2013.
Date: 2 March – 25 April 2015
Venue: Poetry Society Café, 22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London WC2H 9BX
Web: http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/cafe/
Organiser: Poetry Society
The East Foundation is a registered charity (1142886) in the UK. Our charitable objects are to promote, maintain, improve and advance education for the public in the arts and culture of East Asia, in particular but not exclusively the arts of drama, mime, dance, singing and music. 
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